Source: Chicago Tribune By Vikki Ortiz Healy Contact Reporter A suburban Chicago Muslim group hopes two giant billboards hanging over busy Chicago highways will help to fight terrorism while also combating Islamophobia. […]
Source: The Palm Beach Post By Eliot Kleinberg Boca Raton’s two U.S. representatives Tuesday appeared to support the use of a mosque as a polling place in the Aug. 30 […]
Source: RNS By Kimberly Winston (RNS) As he has done 10 times in his seven-plus years in office, President Obama comforted the nation after a mass shooting with words of Scripture. […]
By Zubair Khan Following indicators lead to some thing fishy fishy in power corridors of Pakistan. 1. Posters and bill boards comprising pictures of current COAS with the request to take over appeared in major cities of Pakistan. Move on Party enacted these posters cum bill boards. Contact phone numbers also […]
Source. Balkan Insight Among all criteria which may be of interest for the UN members, there is a strong international movement to elect for the first time a woman Secretary-General. That element in the complex election puzzle should not be ignored. The global trend in this aspect will have its […]
A French design engineer who was dismissed for wearing an Islamic headscarf should have been allowed to cover her head at work, a senior EU lawyer has said.A French woman at a protest against the banning of headscarves in state schools. Photograph: Alamy In an influential preliminary opinion, an advocate […]
Source. The Daily Beast ISTANBUL — Moving in for the kill, the Syrian regime and its Russian and Iranian backers have taken control of the last supply route into rebel-held Aleppo in a combined air and ground campaign that has left well over 100 dead. It was a major setback for […]
Source: The Express Tribune By Imtiaz Gul If we ever needed a damning indictment of ugly geo-politically motivated military interventions, Sir John Chilcot delivered it on July 6 — The […]
Source: ET For the vast majority in Pakistan, the third gender is an unknown. Hijras/eunuchs, transsexuals, transvestites and hermaphrodites continue to live on the social periphery, confined within their own communities and excluded from ordinary civic and social life. Our interaction with them is limited to a curious glance from […]
Source: BBC By Gordon Corera Security correspondent, BBC News The use of a robot to deliver an explosive device and kill the Dallas shooting suspect has intensified the debate over […]
Source: The Washington Post By Dean Obeidallah July 12 at 6:30 AM Producers of the Muslim Funny Fest have created fake “Muslim ID” cards for comics, a commentary on Donald […]
Source: Associated Press By DANIELLA CHESLOW JERUSALEM (AP) — The president of America’s Union for Reform Judaism blasted the Israeli government Monday for delaying a plan to give liberal Jews a special space to pray at a Jerusalem holy site, and vowed to escalate his movement’s struggle with public demonstrations […]
Source:The Washington Post By Brady Dennis DALLAS — The minister and the imam had known each other barely a year. They had met at a vigil after the mass shooting […]
Source: The Guardian Sam Thielman in New York Conservative Christians no longer agree on how to vote their collective conscience in America. To liberals, this group has acted for 40 […]
Source: Time By Alice Park Once the optic nerve that’s responsible for sight is damaged, it’s impossible to see again. At least that’s been the dogma. But a group of […]
Source: BBC By David K Gibson IT’S AN ADOLESCENT ACT OF VANDALISM, probably more talked about than actually performed, but urinating into a fuel tank may one day have a […]
Source: BBC Italy’s economy will not return to the levels seen before the 2008 financial crisis until the mid-2020s, the IMF has said, implying “two lost decades”. By the mid-2020s, […]
Source: BBC A wedge-tailed eagle tried to fly away with a terrified boy at a popular wildlife show in central Australia. A crowd of stunned onlookers watched the enormous bird […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times As President Barrack Hussein Obama speaks, with whom I share my middle name, First Lady Michelle Obama, Ex. […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Religion Associate Editor, The Huffington Post One of the most beautiful aspects of faith is its ability to give people a deep well of […]